States Can Take Steps to Prevent Property Tax Foreclosures and Preserve Homeownership and Transfer of Intergenerational Wealth BOSTON – A new report from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) looks at the unique issues heirs face when inheriting a home with an overdue property tax bill and the disproportionate impact on Black and Latino wealth…
WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden will announce a crackdown on rental housing junk fees that undermine housing stability. Citing a recent National Consumer Law Center report, the Biden Administration is calling attention to the significant harm that rental housing junk fees cause to tenants and outlined steps the Administration is taking to curb junk fees.…
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Sarah B. Mancini will join hybrid hearing on “rent-to-own” home financing arrangements that exploit vulnerable homebuyers The hearing is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Livestream. Full Testimony (available after the hearing) WASHINGTON – Today, Sarah Bolling Mancini, co-director of advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center, will testify…
WASHINGTON— Nketiah “Ink” Berko, a former NCLC intern, will return to the National Consumer Law Center upon his graduation from Yale Law School as an Equal Justice Works fellow to spend two years advancing access to justice for underserved communities. Equal Justice Works, the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, named Berko,…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, leading civil rights and housing policy organizations issued the following statement supporting the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)’s pricing framework.
Housing Law Experts to Probe “Zombie” Second Mortgages and Foreclosures on April 26 WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) upcoming field hearing will feature remarks from CFPB Director Rohit Chopra and leading national and local housing law advocates, including Andrea Bopp Stark, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, on “zombie” second…
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